FMA Live!, the interactive hip-hop, Newtonian physics show will visit 40 schools across seven U.S. states MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., March 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Honeywell (NYSE: HON) and NASA are proud to support their science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education program with the award-winning, hip-hop educational experience FMA Live! Forces in Motion. The program […]

By Ruth Kava / ACSH All athletes (and non-athletes) are warned repeatedly of the risks of dehydration, especially when exercising in hot, humid environments. The warning has become such a truism that seeing people on the street sipping from their bottles of water is commonplace. But there’s a downside to all this sipping — water […]

Jason-3, a new U.S.-European oceanography satellite mission with NASA participation, has produced its first complete science map of global sea surface height, capturing the current signal of the 2015-16 El Niño. The first Jason-3 global map can be viewed at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia20532 The map was generated from the first 10 days of data collected once Jason-3 […]

By Ruth Kava / ACSH Dog ownership has been touted as being good for one’s health for years. Now a new scientific study, just presented at the meeting of the American Heart Association, supports what seems to have become common knowledge — dogs are good for you. Senior author on the study was Dr. Tove […]

The engineers huddled around a telemetry screen, and the mood was tense. They were watching streams of data from a crippled spacecraft more than 50 million miles away — so far that even at the speed of light, it took nearly nine minutes for a signal to travel to the spacecraft and back. It was […]

Lola Gayle, STEAM Register We won’t all get to witness this week’s total solar eclipse in person, but NASA scientists are ready for it. They will be in Indonesia on the morning of March 9, 2016 (local time), anxiously awaiting the start of totality. During that time, they will capture 59 several-second exposures of the […]

The main climate scientist behind a letter asking President Barack Obama to prosecute those who question global warming may have been cheating taxpayers by illegally “double-dipping” – he was paying himself and his wife millions of dollars while running a taxpayer-funded research group while collecting a paycheck from his state-funded academic job. “Since 2001, as […]

Findings could impact how we protect technology in space DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory The shape of the two electron swarms 600 miles to more than 25,000 miles from the Earth’s surface, known as the Van Allen Belts, could be quite different than has been believed for decades, according to a new study of data from […]

Dr. Shinya Yamanaka won a Nobel Prize for his work with induced pluripotent stem cells. Based on that singular research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pharmacy scientists have transformed ordinary skin cells into cancer-hunting stem cells that are able to destroy glioblastoma. The UNC team say their experimental medical research may someday provide […]

From The Guardian Some 10,000 years ago a woman in the last stages of pregnancy met a terrible death, trussed like a captive animal and dumped into shallow water at the edge of a Kenyan lagoon. She died with at least 27 members of her tribe, all equally brutally murdered, in the earliest evidence of […]